National research and education network

A national research and education network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country.

It is usually distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone network, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects.

NRENs are usually the places where new Internet protocols are introduced before deployment within the Internet.^{[citation needed]} Two examples of these protocols are IPv6 and IP multicast.

List of NRENs

• United States:
  • Internet2 (UCAID) - de facto NREN of the United States of America
  • National LambdaRail (NLR) - United States NREN
  • CalREN - California NREN operated by CENIC
  • vBNS
• CANARIE (CA*Net) - Canadian NREN
• APAN - Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
  • AARNet - Australian NREN
  • BDREN - Bangladeshi NREN
  • CSTNET - Chinese NREN
  • ERNET - Indian NREN
  • HARNET - Hong Kong NREN
  • INHERENT - Indonesia Higher Education & Research Network NREN
  • KAREN (REANNZ) - New Zealand NREN
  • LEARN - (Lanka Education & Research Network), Sri Lanka NREN
  • NREN - Nepal NREN
  • PERN - Pakistani NREN
  • SINET - Japanese NREN
  • MYREN - Malaysian NREN
  • SingAREN - Singaporean NREN
  • TWAREN - Taiwanese NREN
  • Uninet - Thai NREN
  • PREGINET - Philippine NREN
• CLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Association of Latin American NRENs) that runs RedCLARA backbone network
  • CEDIA - Ecuadorian NREN
  • CR2Net - Costa Rican NREN
  • CUDI - Mexican NREN
  • RAAP - Peruvian NREN
  • RAICES - Salvadoran NREN
  • RAGIE - Guatemalan NREN
  • RAU - Uruguayan NREN
  • REACCIUN - Venezuelan NREN
  • RedCyT - Panamanian NREN
  • RENATA - Colombian NREN
  • RENIA - Nicaraguan NREN
  • Red - Argentine NREN
  • REUNA - Chilean NREN
  • RNP - Brazilian NREN
  • UNITEC - Honduran NREN
• KENET - Kenyan NREN
• MALICO/MAREN - Malawian NREN
• TENET/SANReN - South African NREN
• TERENA - Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (Association of European NRENs)
• DANTE - runs GÉANT2 backbone network on behalf of European NRENs
  • ACOnet - Austrian NREN
  • AMRES - Serbian NREN
  • ARNES - Slovenian NREN
  • Belnet - Belgian NREN
  • BREN - Bulgarian NREN
  • CARNet - Croatian NREN
  • CESNET - Czech NREN
  • CYNET - Cypriot NREN
  • DFN - German NREN
  • EENet - Estonian NREN
  • KazRENA - Kazakhstan NREN
  • FCCN - Portuguese NREN
  • Consortium GARR - Italian NREN
  • GRNET - Greek NREN
  • HEAnet - Irish NREN
  • HUNGARNET - Hungarian NREN
  • IUCC - Israeli NREN
  • JANET (JANET(UK)) - United Kingdom NREN
  • SigmaNet - Latvian NREN
  • LITNET - Lithuanian NREN
  • MARNET - Macedonian NREN
  • NORDUnet - Nordic backbone network
    • FUNET - Finnish NREN
    • RHnet - Icelandic NREN
    • SUNET - Swedish NREN
    • Forskningsnettet - Danish NREN
    • UNINETT - Norwegian NREN
  • PIONIER (PCSS) - Polish NREN
  • RedIRIS - Spanish NREN
  • RENATER - French NREN
  • RESTENA - Luxembourg NREN
  • RNC / RoEduNet - Romanian NRENs
  • SANET - Slovakian NREN
  • SUIN - Sudanese NREN
  • SURFnet - Dutch NREN
  • SWITCH - Swiss NREN
  • ULAKBIM - Turkish NREN
  • University of Malta CSC - Maltese NREN
• RUNNet - Russian University Network, Russian NREN

See also

==References==

External links

NRENs

• Internet2 US Research and Education Network
• Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium REN in Asia & Pacific
• KIWI Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) New Zealand Research and Education Network
• Nepal Research and Education Network
• Sudanese Universities Information Network SUIN
• Terena Compendium

Further reading and case studies

• India - High Performance Computing Networks & NRENS.pdf
• Digital Divide & REN, Case of Bangladesh

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